• October 2023: “Islamophobia and Qatar 2022.” [Oral Presentation] Hiwaraat Conference Series: Global Histories and Practices of Islamophobia. Georgetown University – Qatar, Doha, Qatar. September 30th-October 1st 2023.

  • September 2022: “Qatar in Paris: Paris Saint-Germain, Cosmopolitanism, and National Identity Performance Post-2022.” [Oral Presentation] Qatar University Gulf Studies Center 7th Annual Conference “The FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar: Looking into Global and Local Perspectives.” Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. 19th-20th September 2022.
  • August 2022: Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game. [Panel Discussion] 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, Doha, Qatar. 15th August 2022.
  • June 2022: “Primal Beings: Representations of the Frontier in Don DeLillo’s End Zone.” [Oral Presentation] 39th Sport Literature Association Annual Conference. 15th-18th June 2022.
  • March 2022: “Paris Saint-German and Qatari National Identity.” [Oral Presentation] Centre for International & Regional Studies “Qatar’s World Cup Goals – Moving from the Periphery to the Centre” Workshop. Georgetown University – Qatar, Doha, Qatar. 9th-10th March 2022.
  • April 2021: “Women’s Cycling in Qatar.” [Oral Presentation] Women in Sport and Exercise 3rd Annual Conference. University of Worcester, 19th-22nd April 2021.
  • June 2020: “Why Identity Matters in International Football.” [Guest Lecture] Globalization of Sports – Culture & Politics. Georgetown University – Qatar, Doha, Qatar. 11th June 2020.
  • October 2019: “Player’s Perspective in the Performance of National Identity.” [Oral Presentation] Centre for International & Regional Studies “Football in the Middle East” Workshop. Georgetown University – Qatar, Doha, Qatar. 27th-28th October 2019.
  • July 2019: “Remembering a Forgotten Past: Precolonial Society in the Gulf in the Historical Fiction of Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud.” [Oral Presentation] MLA International Symposium: Remembering Voices Lost. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal. 23rd-25th July 2019.
  • February 2018: “Football in the Desert? Qatar’s World Cup, National Identity, and the British Broadsheet Press.” [Oral Presentation] Liberal Arts International Conference: Local Dreams, Global Visions – Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives. Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha. 4th-6th February 2018.
  • December 2017: “Qatar’s World Cup and Online Media.” [Oral Presentation] Digital Humanities Colloquium. Department of English Literature & Linguistics. Qatar University, Doha. 4th-5th December 2017.
  • September 2017: “Football and the Half-Civilized Races: Qatar’s World Cup in the British Broadsheet Press.” [Oral Presentation] Globalization. Postcolonial Studies Association Annual Convention. School of Advanced Study. Senate House, University of London, London. 18th-20th September 2017.
  • June 2017: “Recreating the Other: Cultural Narratives in the 21st Century – Qatar.” [Oral Presentation] Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries. The Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Korea University, Seoul. 24th-27th June 2017.
  • May 2016: “Humanity’s Greatest Hope: The American Ideal in Marvel’s The Avengers.” [Oral Presentation] Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy in American Popular Culture since 9/11. The 7th American Studies Fulbright Conference. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 21st-22nd May 2016.
  • April 2015: “Nothing to Savour with Your Eyes: The Politics of Seeing in Tim O’Brien’s If I Die in a Combat Zone.” [Oral Presentation] Sight Unseen – Seeing, Surveillance, and the Visual Sphere in American Culture: The Irish Association of American Studies Annual Conference. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin. 24th-25th April 2015. 
  • March 2015: “’An Occasional Item of Surpassing Value’: How Fiction was Turned into Fact in the Narratives of the Vietnam War.” [Oral Presentation] International Conference on Narrative 2015. Purdue University Calumet, Chicago, Illinois. 5th-8th March 2015.
  • November 2012: “Daniel Defoe, 20th Century Man: Creative Nonfiction in the Eighteenth Century.” [Oral Presentation] College of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Social Sciences Annual Postgraduate Conference. University College Cork, Cork. 10th Nov 2012.
  • November 2012: “The Exceptional Seven: America’s New Kind of Cold War in Avengers Assemble.” [Oral Presentation] The Marginalised Mainstream: Literature, Culture, Popularity Conference. Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, London. 8th-9th Nov 2012.
  • July 2012: “The History Books Gloss it Over: European Exceptionalism in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American.” [Oral Presentation] Transatlantic Studies Association Conference. University College Cork, Cork. 9th July 2012.
  • November 2011: “Real, Compared to What: Does Creative Nonfiction Really Tell the Truth?” [Oral Presentation] College of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Social Sciences Annual Postgraduate Conference. University College Cork, Cork. 12th Nov 2011.